Paul Kelly announced his 29th studio album ‘Fever Longing Still’ will be released on 1 November 2024
The first single from the album is ‘Taught By Experts’ – a song which Kelly originally recorded as blue grass on his 1999 album ‘Smoke’ with Uncle Bill. Now recorded with full band, ‘Taught By Experts’ seamlessly fits into Paul Kelly’s timeless cannon of classics
With Father’s Day approaching, it’s the perfect time to release a second track from the album in ‘Going To The River With Dad’
Paul Kelly talks on writing ‘Going to the River with Dad’: “Inspired by the opening essay of Noel Pearson’s book ‘Mission’. The end days and the early days are one. We’re back in childhood, rubbing the sleep from our eyes. At least at the start of the song we are. By the end of the song we’re way past that young child. We’ve passed our parents even.”
Paul Kelly’s last album was his celebration of all things Christmas with ‘Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train’, a #1 ARIA Album. His last album of new material was 2018’s ARIA Award winning and #1 album ‘Nature’
‘Fever Longing Still’, a phrase taken from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 147, has a clear theme running through each song. Love. Kelly explains: “For close to fifty years I’ve written mostly love songs. I never know what I’m doing until I’m in the middle of it but, looking back, it seems this record is an attempt to present all those kinds of love songs into one forty minute album. Urgent love, patient love, happy love, sad love, deluded love, clear-eyed love, complicated love, the beginning of love, the end of love; love gone wrong, love pretty right, love of clan, love between parents and children, love of oblivion, love of pain, love of revenge.”